Chapter 556

"It's not me!" Xiang Ningyan was terrified in his heart and spoke rapidly.

"It's the direction I'm in, right? It must be like this!"

Xiang Ningyan hurriedly moved away and went to the side of Wu Jianwu.

But just as he moved, the bloodline guidance needle on the compass in the Captain's hand also moved along with him, still locking onto Xiang Ningyan.

The Captain's expression became heavy; he gave Xiang Ningyan a meaningful look and spoke calmly.

"Hand it over!"

Wu Jianwu's expression also changed; he looked fiercely at Xiang Ningyan and spoke subconsciously.

"Old tree blooms, grandson grandfather; willow dark, flower bright, is it your father?"

Xiang Ningyan's heart was pounding; he was in no mood to pay attention to Wu Jianwu. At this moment, his expression revealed bewilderment, and his heart was in turmoil.

He had originally thought that his location overlapped with that of the tomb raider, but looking at it now, the target of that needle was clearly himself.

Thinking of the meaning behind all this, Xiang Ningyan panicked and hurriedly explained, stammering.

"Brother Chen Erniu, it's really not me, I... I don't know what's going on either."

Xu Qing's eyes revealed a strange look, and he didn't speak, while the Captain raised his eyebrows.

"Hurry up and hand it over!"

"Hand what over? We really don't have any blood relation."

Xiang Ningyan wore a mournful face, his body trembling.

The Captain frowned, looking disgusted.

"Of course I know it's not you. How could I possibly have a descendant like you? I'm telling you to hand over my precious skin!"

Upon hearing this, Xiang Ningyan was shocked. He immediately took the Captain's precious skin out of his storage bag—this item had been with him all along. The moment he took it out and threw it over, the needle on the Captain's compass spun rapidly.

Seeing this scene, Xiang Ningyan finally let out a long sigh of relief; he had been terrified just now.

Wu Jianwu felt a bit of regret in his heart and muttered softly.

"Heaven collapses, earth cracks, scared the bird to pee; fate comes, fate goes, just a piece of hair."

Xiang Ningyan didn't understand, but he could feel the malicious intent within, so he glared over.

Wu Jianwu glared back, and the large and small fierce beasts beside him also glared over in unison.

Xiang Ningyan fell silent.

As for the Captain, he didn't pay attention to the conflict between these two fellows. He put away the precious skin and searched for the bloodline guidance again, quickly locking onto a direction.

"Let's go, it's right there!"

"I want to go and see exactly what kind of ghost thing has possessed my past life's body!"

Saying this, the Captain went aggressively straight toward the exit of the graveyard.

Xu Qing stepped forward and followed closely behind. On the way, he glanced at the shadow under his feet and sensed the fish bone in his storage bag. His wariness of them in his heart grew a few points deeper because of this incident with the Captain.

Sensing Xu Qing's spiritual sense, the shadow trembled, and the Jin Gang Sect ancestor inside the fish bone also shivered, both radiating feelings of obsequiousness.

Xu Qing's expression remained as usual, secretly pondering that he should learn some restriction techniques to increase his multi-layered wariness of the shadow and the Jin Gang Sect ancestor.

He meant no harm to others, but he must never make the same mistake as the Captain.

Thus, amidst this contemplation, the group left the graveyard under the Captain's lead. When they reached the outside, it was already early morning.

The morning light from the artificial sun radiating from afar dispelled the darkness, causing light to appear in the world. The green plants on the mountain range were clearly visible, their veins transparent and full of vitality. Compared to this miserable world, these signs of life gave Xu Qing the feeling for a moment as if they were fake.

But soon, as the light brightened, everything returned to normal, and the rocks on the ground no longer looked like demons and monsters.

Only, the Captain and the others under the sunlight had different moods.

The Captain was anxious, Wu Jianwu was regretful, Xiang Ningyan had lingering fears, and Xu Qing was vigilant of the surroundings; he didn't think this time would really go as smoothly as the Captain said.

After all, the Captain's past life body had been gone for who knows how long, and even if it were truly still within this Weiyang Mountain Range, there must be many arrangements in place.

"The other party likely knows that the Eldest Brother can reincarnate, which means they could guess that one day, the Eldest Brother would return."

"Then their level of caution must be extremely high."

Xu Qing pondered, caught up to the Captain leading the way in front, and informed him of these points he had been thinking about.

Upon hearing this, the Captain nodded. He had also considered these matters, but he remained confident, patted Xu Qing on the shoulder, and spoke in a low voice.

"Little Junior Brother, no matter how that ghost thing makes arrangements, there is one point it cannot solve: as long as I can touch it, I will definitely have a way to subdue it!"

"I have a habit: every time after reincarnation, at the moment of birth, I refine my own body, always ready to use my body as a weapon."

"Therefore, this past life body of mine cannot escape my palm."

Xu Qing looked at the Captain and sized him up.

"This time as well?"

"Of course, Little Ah Qing. Back then in the Feng Hai County Capital, I was already prepared to unseal the seals and summon all my past life bodies. I'm not bragging, but if all my past life bodies descended, even a god would have to call me brother upon seeing me."

The Captain said proudly.

Xu Qing smiled. He had long known about the Captain's habit of bragging, but he could clearly sense the concern for him revealed in these words.

So he nodded earnestly.

Just like this, time passed, and soon seven days went by.

In these seven days, their group followed the Captain's bloodline compass guidance and had already reached the depths of the Weiyang Mountain Range.

Here, mountain peaks stood like a forest, the vegetation was more lush, and many wild beasts could be seen moving about.

Like cultivators and mortals, the wild beasts of the Sacrifice Moon Great Domain also carried curses, so it was inevitable that some mutations would appear, making them even more fierce.

At this moment, a group of tiger-headed butterflies about half a zhang long whistled past at low altitude, scattering a lot of highly toxic dust from their bodies.

Xu Qing raised his hand to catch some, and after sensing them, his eyes revealed a strange look. He looked up and took a few more glances at the place where they had left.

"The toxic powder contains the Red Moon curse... and it is very active, as if it had just been produced."

Xu Qing felt a bit strange, buried this matter in his heart, and continued forward with the Captain.

Gradually, as their group went deeper into the mountain range, the sensing from the bloodline made the Captain cautious, his body gradually blurring and remaining in concealment.

Wu Jianwu and Xiang Ningyan also had their auras concealed under his actions.

As for Xu Qing, he put on the mask given by his Master, his body turned into a ghost-like state, and he lost all traces.

"Little Ah Qing, the place one day's journey ahead is where my bloodline power is strongest, but those are just remnants; the source is not there."

"Rather than continuing to pursue, it's better to wait here for the other party to return. Additionally, the combat power of my past life body, due to some special reasons, cannot recover to the Void Returning stage; it should be Spirit Repository, a physical Spirit Repository."

In a valley depression, the Captain squatted on a tree canopy and spoke in a low voice toward the empty space beside him.

"Okay." Xu Qing's voice came from another direction of the Captain.

The Captain blinked, secretly thinking that Little Ah Qing's concealment had actually reached such a level, so he should also be more diligent in this aspect. However, at this moment, he was in no mood to consider these things too much and squatted there without moving.

Wu Jianwu and Xiang Ningyan were the same beside him, not daring to breathe loudly.

After all, no one knew what identity the Captain's past life body had now. As for cultivation... the Captain spoke lightly, but even if it were only Spirit Repository, to

them, it was still a behemoth-like existence.

Thus, with each being cautious, time passed day by day.

Four days later, the Captain suddenly transmitted his voice.

"It's here!"

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, not looking at the firmament, but toward the front of the Captain.

There was an eye there, reflecting a scene of heaven and earth.

Wu Jianwu and Xiang Ningyan also restrained all their auras, and after their gazes gathered on the sky and they realized what was happening, they quickly changed their line of sight to look at the eye in front of the Captain.

At the same time, in the mountain range one day's journey away, the firmament there showed changes.

A group of people came in a mighty force from afar. As soon as their figures appeared on the horizon, the sound of music echoed in all directions. A full hundred people were playing long flutes, the melody beautiful and joyous.

There were even maidservants flying in mid-air, scattering flowers in all directions. For a time, the fragrance of flowers overflowed, and the music drifted.

And as the newcomers approached, their brightly colored clothing looked like flowers blooming in the firmament.

Surrounded by these countless flowers was a flower sedan made from a giant's skull, carried by thirty-two big men, walking steadily in mid-air.

These thirty-two big men were not human, but Lion Clan; their golden fur made them look like heavenly soldiers and generals under the sunlight, their momentum magnificent.

This kind of pomp might not count for much in Feng Hai County, but in this Sacrifice Moon Great Domain, especially in this Weiyang Mountain Range, it was already extremely exaggerated.

As for the skull flower sedan they were carrying, one could see a man and a woman sitting inside.

The woman was wearing a red cloud dress, looking to be twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. Her skin was whiter than snow, she was incomparably beautiful and charming, and her appearance was so stunning that one could not bear to look directly at her.

At this moment, half of her delicate body was leaning against the man beside her, her hand placed on him, her eyes filled with tenderness, as if in her eyes, there was only the person in front of her.

And beneath her slender jade neck, a pair of breasts like congealed fat and white jade were half-hidden, her waist was slender and could not be grasped, and a pair of long, watery, and well-proportioned beautiful legs were exposed, and even her beautiful lotus feet were silently enchanting, issuing an alluring invitation.

She was truly a stunning beauty.

As for the man, he was tall and sturdy, his face rugged, his skin grayish-white as if it had no vitality within, and his eyes were one large and one small, very uncoordinated, as if something had gone wrong during creation.

Especially between his breaths, bursts of black Qi were emitted from his mouth, giving people a sense of turbidity.

The whites of his eyes were not normal, containing a sickly yellow color, and his body had many places that were rotting, with some places even dripping with turbid corpse fluid, making people not want to look for long.

Compared to the woman beside him, this man's appearance was very mismatched, but it had to be said that the sharpness radiating from his body contained malevolent Qi, especially in his different-sized eyes, which carried indifference toward life. Sitting there, he had his own majesty, making people not dare to underestimate him.

They came from the horizon, and after arriving here, the man stood up, and the woman rose along with him.

The two looked at each other, one cold, one affectionate.

Finally, they even kissed for a while. It was unknown how that woman could endure the black Qi from the mouth of the person beside her; the moment their tongues touched, it was shocking to behold.

In short, this intimate appearance revealed the incomparable love between the two.

Afterward, the man's body took a step into mid-air and headed straight for the distant mountain peak, while the cultivators on the horizon also quickly lowered their heads to respectfully send them off before carrying the sedan away.

Until a long time later, the firmament here returned to normal, and the eye that had grown out of a leaf of vegetation on the ground quickly closed and melted into dew.

In the depression valley one day's journey away, Xu Qing looked at everything reflected in the eyeball in front of the Captain, his expression changing.

Wu Jianwu and Xiang Ningyan were fine; to them, the two people in the picture were both strangers.

"Little Ah Qing, that female cultivator, is she a bit familiar..." The Captain looked at Xu Qing, his expression somewhat bewildered.

Xu Qing felt it was incredible in his heart. The woman in his memory was someone who loved beauty incomparably, and her pursuit of beauty had reached the extreme, yet now she could be so intimate with someone whose body was permeated with corpse water.

This made Xu Qing unable to understand. At this moment, hearing the Captain's words, he nodded.

"She is exactly the same as that You Jing who had her home stolen by you and hates you to the bone."

After finishing, Xu Qing added another sentence.

"Captain, do you still have her clothes on you?"

The Captain's expression was a bit strange, sometimes ferocious and sometimes revealing something inconceivable. Xu Qing understood all these changes of his.

"The man beside her..." Xu Qing hesitated.

The Captain felt bitter and sighed long.

"That person, probably, perhaps, possibly... is my past life body."

Even if Wu Jianwu and Xiang Ningyan didn't know You Jing, listening to the words of Xu Qing and the other, they had more or less guessed it in their hearts, so they each took a breath.

"Congratulations on your grand wedding!" Xiang Ningyan hesitated and spoke in a low voice.

"This scene makes my heart panic, Niu'er is bewildered and my brain is cold; yesterday you and I broke each other's heads, today we are going to grow old together!"

Wu Jianwu was moved, many stories about fate appeared in his mind, and he couldn't help but have his poetic inspiration surge.

Xu Qing was silent, the Captain was speechless.

"Then if they have children, Brother Chen Erniu, what should the child call you?" Xiang Ningyan couldn't let this opportunity pass and asked in a low voice.

Blue veins bulged on the Captain's forehead.

Seeing this, Wu Jianwu also temporarily put down his resentment toward Xiang Ningyan, and after pondering on the side, he looked at the Captain meaningfully.

"My child's father is not his father, but my child's mother is his mother; if you ask what my child calls me, former father or latter father, it's still father!"

As soon as Wu Jianwu finished his poem, the Captain threw a punch. Amidst the boom, Wu Jianwu wailed, his body falling a hundred zhang away.

Xiang Ningyan was just about to flee when the Captain kicked him over, sending him to accompany Wu Jianwu. Afterward, bloodshot eyes filled the Captain's eyes as he looked up at the sky.

Xu Qing's eyes revealed sympathy; he knew the Captain's mood at this moment must be complex to the extreme, so he patted him on the shoulder.

After a long while, a mournful cry came from the Captain's mouth.

"What the hell is going on here!"

"How did that You Jing take a fancy to my past life body!" The complexity in the Captain's expression was hard to describe in words.

"Eldest Brother, you don't have to be sad. Actually, if You Jing knew the truth, she should be even more complex." Xu Qing knew how to comfort people and advised from the side.

This sentence was indeed effective. After hearing it, the Captain was stunned for a moment, then recovered and gritted his teeth.

"It doesn't matter. Just by taking that look, I have already confirmed that my past life body was possessed by an artifact spirit produced from my funerary objects back then."

"As for which funerary object it is, I cannot be sure yet."

"But it doesn't affect me going to take it back, as long as I can touch it!" The Captain's eyes revealed madness as he pulled Xu Qing to discuss it.

Only, doing this had quite a bit of difficulty. First of all, the aura You Jing revealed was clearly Spirit Repository Great Perfection in terms of perception.

This matched the battle reports Xu Qing had once read regarding You Jing being seriously injured and missing on the battlefield.

"Her escape was a deliberate act by the Great Elder of the Ying Huang State to contain the Seventh Imperial Prince. I originally thought she was secretly restrained by the Great Elder, but looking at it now, she was truly let go."

"However, the Great Elder must have other arrangements in this."

"It's a pity that this place is too far from Feng Hai County, otherwise I could go and ask."

Xu Qing

pondered and spoke.

The Captain narrowed his eyes and spoke slowly.

"As for that past life body of mine, death aura permeates his body, and there are no spell fluctuations, which matches my judgment. After all, having been dead for so long, the ghost thing that possessed him is only occupying the shell."

"However, the physical body power of my past life is comparable to Spirit Repository Great Perfection."

The Captain frowned. One past life body was already enough to make him unable to deal with it, and now there was also a You Jing. In this way, wanting to touch his past life was basically impossible.

"Looking at the intimacy between You Jing and your past life body, Eldest Brother, the identity of your past life body should be that number one powerhouse of the Weiyang Mountain Range, Xuan Mingzi."

"It's just a bit strange, why is You Jing here? And how could it be love at first sight, to such an extent?"

Xu Qing still felt that this matter was not right, so he looked at the Captain.

"We need information about this Xuan Mingzi."

"I have his information. Although I didn't pay attention to these small birds before, I also collected some along the way." The Captain said, opening his storage bag to search, and quickly found a jade slip, which contained some introductions to this Xuan Mingzi.

The other party had created a sect in the Weiyang Mountain Range, named the Xuan Ming Sect.

And this person had been in seclusion within the Xuan Ming Sect for many years and rarely went out. One could imagine that the place of seclusion must be heavily guarded; wanting to sneak in had too high a risk.

And there was only one chance; once discovered by the other party, the situation for Xu Qing and the others would be incomparably dangerous.

So after Xu Qing and the Captain discussed it, they felt they could only use some clever methods.

"Eldest Brother, your past life body and You Jing are having a grand wedding soon..." Xu Qing was thoughtful, and a plan inexplicably appeared in his mind.

Upon hearing this, the Captain had a bad premonition.

"Eldest Brother, isn't You Jing going to the Yin Yang Flower Between Sect's spirit pool for a baptism for a month? If at that time, we have some way to trap her, making her unable to go to the wedding..."

"Then, Eldest Brother, you disguise yourself as You Jing."

Just as Xu Qing said this, the Captain's eyes widened. Wu Jianwu and Xiang Ningyan also ran back. After hearing this, their eyes shone brightly, especially Xiang Ningyan, who couldn't help but grin happily, but fearing a beating, he forcibly restrained himself.

Xu Qing continued to speak.

"Eldest Brother, you understand your past life body the best, and you also know You Jing quite well. After all, you have been to her house, and especially, you are more skilled at disguising yourself as the opposite sex and have had experience. Do you still remember the Sea Corpse Clan princess from back then? At that time, you were vivid and incomparably realistic."

Xu Qing gazed at the Captain, took out an apple and handed it over, speaking in a low voice.

"So I think, you disguise yourself as You Jing and go to have the grand wedding with your past life body. In this way, can't you come into contact with your past life body?"

"Of course, the premise is that we have a way to trap You Jing, and you can also deceive your past life body."

The Captain instinctively took the apple, his expression hesitant.

He felt that the plan Xu Qing mentioned was feasible, but thinking about going to have a grand wedding with his past life body, that kind of absurd feeling made his heart bewildered.

"Eldest Brother, this is the only way I can think of for now, it's just too crazy, you might not be able to accept it."

Xu Qing sighed and patted the Captain on the shoulder.

The Captain gritted his teeth, his expression ferocious, his breathing rapid, and finally, madness revealed itself in his eyes.

"I can do it!"

"However, this plan needs to be well prepared. Little Ah Qing, you need to lend me your world fragment; this is the foundation for trapping her."

"To trap You Jing, ordinary methods won't work. I also need to set up a peerless array within your world fragment, and I even need to go personally to unlock part of the seal, then cooperate with the power of my precious skin plus the might of the sun. By the way, your Ghost Emperor Mountain Nascent Soul also needs to be inside."

"Only then can the world fragment be closed to trap her inside!"

"As for deceiving my past life body, I'll find a way!"

The Captain's eyes were blood-red. In order to take back his body, he seemed to have decided to give it a try, so he studied the details with Xu Qing, such as how to set it up and how not to attract the attention of the Yin Yang Flower Between Sect.

During this period, Xu Qing also raised his own doubts, which was whether it was possible that the other party was doing this on purpose, fishing.

After all, some things cannot be viewed from the surface.

Upon hearing this, the Captain nodded, and a strange look flashed in his eyes as he looked at Xu Qing, but soon he was back to his confident self, patting his chest and saying he had a way to resolve it.

Xu Qing looked at the Captain. Since entering the Weiyang Mountain Range, the Captain's words and actions seemed a bit different from what he remembered, but these confident words were indeed something he had said a lot from beginning to end.

Several days later, after many consultations, they finally finalized the plan and set off toward the Yin Yang Flower Between South Sect located in the Weiyang Mountain Range.

The Yin Yang Flower Between Sect was a large sect in the Sacrifice Moon Great Domain. Because it was attached to the temple and served as a sacrificial dance, it had certain privileges, so it existed in many branches in the east, west, south, and north.

The disciples were of mixed quality, and fake identities were also easy to obtain.

This was also one of the reasons why the Captain chose the identity of the Yin Yang Flower Between Sect when he came.

As for the branch in this Weiyang Mountain Range, it was just one of several branches in the southern great domain. Its ancestor was Void Returning and was often at the Repentance Plains of the Red Moon Temple headquarters.

As for the sect master of this branch, he was his bloodline descendant, possessed Spirit Repository cultivation, and sat in charge of this sect.

However, because the Yin Yang Flower Between Sect had too many branches, they were actually not on good terms with each other. Even if they had occasional contact, it was not that intimate; they seemed to exclude each other and were somewhat wary of the other party.

Even though the Captain and Xu Qing had the identities of Yin Yang Flower Between Sect disciples, they were still stopped in front of this sect after submitting their tokens.

The mountain gate of the Yin Yang Flower Between Sect was on a twin peak in this Weiyang Mountain Range. Inside, it was carved and luxurious, especially the spirit lake behind the mountain, which was even more famous because it was a gathering point for a spirit river in the Weiyang Mountain Range.

At this moment, beneath the twin peaks, a light curtain appeared in front of Xu Qing and the Captain. While blocking their steps, the three disciples guarding the mountain gate of this sect manifested from within.

"Your tokens do not belong to our Weiyang South Sect. According to sect rules, we cannot let you enter easily, so go back to where you came from."

The middle-aged man in the middle of the three, with his hands behind his back, spoke calmly.

Regarding this, Xu Qing and the others already had a corresponding method on the way, so the Captain smiled on his face, stepped forward a few steps, and raised his right hand to place it on his storage bag, just about to take out an item.

But just at this moment, fluctuations came from the firmament, and a light "eh" echoed in the sky, followed by a Spirit Repository fluctuation that swept across all directions.

Xu Qing's expression tightened, and the Captain's movements also paused.

Just as Wu Jianwu and Xiang Ningyan in the back were secretly thinking it was bad, a figure came from the sky and descended into mid-air in an instant.

This was a middle-aged woman wearing a Daoist robe, her appearance somewhat attractive. The moment she appeared, the expressions of the three disciples guarding the mountain gate changed, and they immediately knelt down.

"Greetings, Sect Master."

Xu Qing and the Captain also hurriedly cupped their fists, their expressions respectful. However, while Xu Qing was paying his respects, doubts also arose in his heart; the other party seemed to have arrived a bit too coincidentally.

And the middle-aged woman's gaze didn't look at Xu Qing or the Captain at all. The moment she appeared, a smile appeared on her face as she looked at Wu Jianwu and spoke softly.

"This young master, this is our second meeting. I still remember your poem from last time vividly."